During a series of pretrial filings before its federal obscenity case goes to trial, Extreme Associates and its co-owners Robert Zicari and wife Janet Romano have filed a motion to dismiss the indictments against them. The motion was filed Jan. 31.

A judge in the ongoing legal battle between Porn Kings and Falcon Foto has clarified the multistate copyright dispute, consolidating cases filed by both parties into a single action, which will be heard in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

Paris Hilton has won a temporary injunction from a federal judge against the website ParisExposed.com that displayed personal photos, videos, diaries, medical prescriptions and other belongings she and sister Nicky kept at a storage facility after their house was burglarized.

In the wake of seven U.S. attorneys across the country being asked to step down earlier this month, critics of the administration, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have charged that the shakeup is a politically motivated attempt to alter the priorities of the nation’s top prosecutors and focus their attention on so-called morality offenses such as obscenity.

A federal appeals court has ruled that an employee whose office was not shared with coworkers and was kept locked had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his workplace computer. But it also said in that the employee’s right wasn’t violated when a search turned up a history of child porn visits.

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